Data on key health indicators in children, such as birthweight, breastfeeding, television viewing, smoking, and anemia, were collected by the 2010 Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System.Low Birthweight: Although the infant mortality rate fell from 26 to seven per 1,000 live births between 1996 and 1999, low-birthweight (LBW) infants (<2,500 g) were 40 times more likely than normal-birthweight infants to die during the first 4 weeks of life.
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